Re: Distributed SCM in Gnome (Was: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

16 sep 2007 kl. 04.40 skrev Curtis Hovey:

> On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 21:44 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 01:10 +0200, Ali Sabil wrote:
> >   - Keith Packard did a fairly extensive research of which DSCM  
> > system
> > to use for xorg and other fd.o projects, from a storage robustness /
> > performance point of view, and he wrote this excellent piece:
> >
> >   http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html
>
> This document is a year old; projects that are under heavy development
> like Bazaar are misrepresented. For instance bzr has changed it's
> repository format, and is much faster that it was a year ago.

In fairness, so is Git. It's perceived complexity is to a large part  
based on people trying it out a long time ago while it is as well  
being developed and higher level abstractions are added.

Cheers,
  Mikael Hallendal

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